diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 12989c6b1..7b159fe6f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libgit2
-Section: devel
+Section: libs
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Russell Sim <russell.sim@gmail.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0), python-all (>= 2.4.0), cmake, libz-dev